COMING SOON TO AN URU NEAR YOU

I am suddenly very excited! I really didn’t think the finale episode was going to rock my socks. Now I think it will. I see a new area! An area that is K’veer, but cooler than it was in Myst V. An area that hints at things to come, and the first area that was in the original Uru: Complete Chronicles to be greatly revamped! I don’t know if K’veer will have anything puzzling in it, but it is a great historical location, and they have been doing very little restoration of the cavern itself lately. Now I must wonder, will we get more than just the inside of the Myst island library too, or am I just being too optimistic?

A new KI mail from the DRC:

Pellet Progress Update

I would like to take another opportunity to thank all of the explorers for continuing to contribute pellets to the lake. I have been monitoring the pellet contributions on a daily basis and have noticed that they’ve been steadily decreasing over the last month. I just wanted to reassure you that you are making progress, so don’t get discouraged. At the current rate of pellet contributions, the increased lake light level could be enough to be noticeable in the next few months. Of course, if they continue to decline, it will take a great deal longer.

Also, according to your tests, the algae does not respond well to spikes in their food supply. Slow and steady is better than large, sudden changes to the pellet contributions. The D’ni do have several safety mechanisms in place to moderate this to some degree, so the algae isn’t in any great danger, but for our own eficiency’s sake, it’s better to be as consistent as is reasonable.

Thanks again,

V. Laxman

I actually made it into Kirel for the latter portion of Cate’s “opening of the guild pubs” speech. That place was crowded!!

It definately looks like there is some sort of determination for “members only” access to the Guild Pubs, based off of what I read in the chatlog on TCT. However, the news was that the Nexus would host the Links to the guild pubs, and that we should expect those within the hour. (Or so CAte was told.)

I am starting to get the impression that Cate is really not happy with the “lack of results” or “not good enough-ness” that she feels she is getting from the DRC. Although this has been an ongoing thing, I still think it will end up with, interesting, results.

Well, the hood was mostly cleaned up in time for Nad to return. :) Otherwise, it was a busy day in cooking Er’cana pellets.

Also managed to induct a new member into the Sardines group tonight. Welcome, A’drian / SqueeMeister!

My journal was not so helpful as I’d hoped in determining which Pod it was that I had not yet gathered a stone from. However, I’ve recently been to both Payiferen, and Tetsonot, and today visited Dereno. Those three I have completed. That leaves: Negilahn.

The next portal isn’t for nearly an entire Museum Age day, so I will leave that one for another time.

Completed Er’cana today. Have started harvesting pellets. Zedra put me on the tracks of a good recipe that I will have to give a try.